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Moisés Patrício – speaking through hands

Around us is a whole visually recognisable world. As we grow we observe and begin to understand these places more, little by little. The landscape around my house is probably very different from what you see when you open the window in the morning. This world catalogs us, analyses us and includes us. Everything around…

Rediscovering play with Kampala’s Afriart Gallery

It’s not just children who have the impulse to play. We’ve all had the urge to engage in spontaneous and undirected activity whose sole purpose is enjoyment and recreation. Play has the effect of restoring our spirit and can release pressures and tensions in a way that breathes life back into our bones. In some…

Plasticine Dreams | Mia Darling

Mia Darling’s work invokes child-like fantasy with cohesive motifs of flowers, butterflies and cherubs in and amongst backdrops of intimate spaces such as bedrooms and boudoirs. Unusually so, she employs plasticine to cement these innocent ideals in swirls of pastel shades, and the detail with which Mia executes a likeness in her pieces is impressive;…

Azibuye – The 360° Virtual Reality Film

Writing about Azibuye – The Occupation is almost as tricky as watching it. I had to move mountains to lay my hands on a headset, then realised my ancient iPhone wouldn’t work in the Samsung VR Gear headset which meant also procuring a Samsung phone. After fumbling through the Android system, I somehow managed to…

‘Coexistence’ – a virtual show reimagining possibilities of gallery spaces & exhibition relics in the digital

TMRW Gallery presents Coexistence, a virtual experience exhibition presented as an application that can be downloaded by viewers. Navigating this virtual world reminds one of the original Sims game through the first-person perspective. The show and the artworks demonstrate a fluidity and agility of practice that these artists possess, and have stretched while creating under…

Curation + Creating with ‘KWAAI’ curator Christina Leigh Fortune

That people labelled ‘coloured’ through apartheid social engineering have been excelling in art, sports, music, academics (in fact, in every arena possible) throughout our history, is nothing new. What is of note is that almost three decades after the first democratic elections, we have yet to rid ourselves of the negative stereotypes associated with this…